INDUSTRIAL METALS / MINERALS

Global growth of boron industry is driven by Chinese demand - Roskill

Thursday , 04 Mar 2010
A Roskill report on global boron demand shows growth has been driven by expansion of dem,and from China where consumption has been rising 15%/year.

NALCO receives approval for new bauxite mining lease in eastern India

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The State-run National Aluminium Company estimates that the new mine has bauxite reserves of over 70m tonnes

Lower nickel prices knock Antam 2009 profit

Monday , 01 Mar 2010
The Indonesian nickel and gold miner said net profit for the year fell 59%

Financials show Perilya and Broken Hill are clearly back from the brink

Friday , 26 Feb 2010
A year ago miner Perilya and the famous Broken Hill mining centre in the far west of New South Wales were looking down the barrel, reeling from the impact of the global financial crisis. The rescue at that time came from Chinese company Zhongjin Lingnan Mining (HK) Co Ltd.

Ironclad may export special magnetite from late this year

Wednesday , 24 Feb 2010
A magnetite project on the central Eyre Peninsula of South Australia may tiptoe into production by sending its maiden consignment of direct shipping ore to China through the State's major port.

Cobalt price could be knocked as surplus looms

Monday , 22 Feb 2010
On the day a cobalt contract was launched on the LME, observers feel that new production coming on stream means the metal is heading for a surplus which would dent prices.

Latest fertilizer deal a peaceful, $4.1bn affair

Monday , 15 Feb 2010
Yara's friendly USD 4.1bn takeover of Terra intensifies the ongoing consolidation of the global fertiliser sector.

Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative buys GrowMax stake for potash project

Friday , 12 Feb 2010
The organizations head said the group plans to scour the globe for other low cost potash projects

Western Uranium moves to focus on high grade manganese

Tuesday , 09 Feb 2010
BHP/Anglo's Groote Eylandt mine is one of the richest manganese mines in the world and Western Uranium controls tenements right alongside.

Lithium NOT rare earth-type space for up-and-comers - Ecclestone

Thursday , 04 Feb 2010
Hallgarten's Christopher Ecclestone says hard-rock lithium projects face larger capital and production costs than their brine counterparts.

Despite lowest production in 20 years, PotashCorp records 3rd highest profit in history

Friday , 29 Jan 2010
PotashCorp forecasts continued production curtailments this year during transition from historically low levels to higher demand in 2011.

Is a big potash play in the offing?

Thursday , 28 Jan 2010
The world's two biggest miners continue hunting, and acquiring, in this exclusive area.

Vale to buy Bunge's fertilizer assets for $3.8bn

Thursday , 28 Jan 2010
The deal does not include any of the US-based company's Brazilian retail or distribution business

Output may be doubled at Kenmare's Moma titanium mine

Saturday , 23 Jan 2010
Kenmare's managing Director sees a market shortage in titanium developining and wants to perhaps double out put at its ilmeite/rutile/zircon mining ops in Mozambique,

BHP sets aside $240 million for construction of Saskatchewan potash mine

Friday , 22 Jan 2010
The world's biggest mining company plans to enter the global potash mining sector with construction of its Jansen mine in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Minara appeases nickel laterites Nervous Nellies

Tuesday , 19 Jan 2010
Australia's biggest laterite nickel and cobalt miner and refiner, the Murrin Murrin project in Western Australia's north eastern goldfields produced a December quarter result that would have quelled the ulcers of nervous investors.

How China got to the top of the Rare Earths pile

Monday , 18 Jan 2010
An interview with Professor Fu Zhongde, who was one of the hey scientists in the Chinese ratre earth industry and is now, Chairman of Beijing Xiang Tai Rui Xi Rare Earth New Technology Application Co, in which he discusses REE industry issues, especially with regard to the status of Chinese rare earth processing technology

Rare Earths in China: Cornering the market or a victim of its own success?

Sunday , 17 Jan 2010
A closer look at the history of the rare earth industry in China, the recent controversies surrounding it, and some of the upcoming trends to watch.

Scotia Capital starts coverage on six potash companies

Thursday , 14 Jan 2010
The group says there is a race to build new capacity in the potash space

The Rare Earth Revolution has investors stampeding, sometimes to mega-hit ‘Avatar'

Wednesday , 13 Jan 2010
Hallgarten & Company analyst Christopher Ecclestone suggests that Rare Earths bugs may find something eerily familiar about the humans' quest for "Unobtainium" in the fantasy film "Avatar."